Is converting to another religion wrong? Is anger against person
responsible for conversion right? What is making society so
intolerance and taking path of violence? To understand this we need
to look how Christianisation projects are planned and executed in
unreached area.

As an Indian and follower of Hindu religion I would say that anger
against person and organizations is obvious but it should not go
out of control and should not be violent rather anger should be
channelized in positive way to bring out positive things of
Hinduism. Violence of the kind we saw in case of Graham Stain and
his two young sons are not acceptable in a civilized society
especially by followers of a religion is based on “Ahinsh parmo
dharma “and “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” the whole
world is a single family. Hindu’s society has been pluristic since
very long. Indian shore always welcomed followers of different
religions. Jews arrived in Indian around 2500 years back (562 BC)
and were welcome by Hindu kings to settle freely in cochin. Later
Christ followers brought his message and Jews settled in Cochin
were first to convert to Christians. After that Paris arrived from
Iran and Arab Muslims and Many others came for trade and
spirituality of India. All new comers sought to live and let live
philosophy and were well adopt by the tolerant Hindu Society in
same way as sugar get dissolved in milk and complement it.

At later stage, 12th century and later, India
started facing Islam Invasion and colonizing European Missionaries,
and it was obvious that now they were not complementing the Hindu’s
society but try to change society as they willed. We all know how
Islam was spread in India, this is out of scope of this note, and
how evangelism flourished in India during British Era.
Evangelism – a concept in which Christ followers invites non
Christians and it’s their right to spread their religion and
teaching of their religion. However, now a day’s what we see in
India is Christianization? Christianization means the following:
preparing plans, and executing these plans and evolving these plans
to change Hindus into Christians by taking advantage of the
ignorance and poverty (of the people) and whatever necessitates
from similar circumstances. So, we are facing issue of taking
advantage of circumstances, taking advantage of humanitarian needs,
taking advantage of the lack of education for example, that these
people (missionaries) use to take Hindus out of their religion.

There are many organizations in rich countries which are running
projects to Christianise people. One of these project is Jausha
.The project “Jausha” is designed and funded to
provide best research and logistics for converting people to
Christianity. The project has well identified and defined their
preys who are unreached or under reached (from Christianity ) and
populated in so called as 10x40 window – which mean 10 degree of
north to 40 degree of north . This area is also known as resistant
area as has major population of Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist and
many other followers of different religions. According to data
available on the project’s website around 4.5 billion people live
in this area and are divided.

These missionaries are pumped with foreign money and provided with
strategy on how to lure most vulnerable class-SC/ST, of the Hindu
society. They are focusing on Dalits –Who are still fighting to
find respectable place in Hindu society which is allegedly governed
by higher class and changing reluctantly. Initially these
vulnerable people are afford pity money , or some other small
helps, as less as 500 Rs, and help to attract them toward the
bigger cause. I still remember when my maid was abusing few members
of a church who had offered her 500 Rs and some Medicine and few
weeks later she was invited to a church. She was unable to
understand the reason behind the same until she was told to rub her
“Sindoor” and stop worshipping Hindu God. She was
lucky to escape from the clutches on missionaries but not every
vulnerable person is lucky enough.

I mentioned here one case, but most of the conversions are based on
false expectation supported with minor help which individuals
receive initially. Dalits are lured to
Christianity and later left in worst condition they were
before conversion. Once converted these Dalits (or other people)
are neither fully embraced in Christianity nor in their previous
religion/society. There are few Hindu organizations which are
trying to mend mistake committed, in false expectation, by these
vulnerable people and trying them to bring home and help them to
start a respectable life again.

We as Hindu, should stand united to help these people who have left
Hindu is false expectation or due to some other reasons. It’s duty
of informed and learned people to make these vulnerable people
understand that Hinduism is the only way to lead a peaceful and
good life. Conversion in false hope will never bring good luck but
more messy life. Government should also try to create right
atmosphere and make sure that people are not force or given wrong
information when being lured for conversion. Government also need
to check tourist and other kind of charity related visa, which are
used by many organizations to spread hatred and promote conversion
of false information and expectations.